Sample
Three Sample
ThreeHome | Writing Samples | Sample Four
Just as there’s more to science than
physical science, there’s more to health than physical health, yet many fail to
remember it.
Our culture has on going love affairs with
both physical science and physical health. The love for physical science stems
from our attachment to products made possible by technologies which themselves
result from the progress of science. Our love for physical health stems from the
active, recreational life-style that is idolized in this society; it has even
been called a health craze. It began with an interest in weight-loss and
exercise, spread to the natural food fad and the revolt against pesticides and
chemical fertilizers, and now is aimed at the conquest of certain diseases, some
of which are associated with certain human ‘vices,’ one of which is smoking, and
that too is now under attack.
The attacking forces have united the lovers
of physical science and the pursuers of physical health; the anti-tobacco lobby
even prides itself on its enlightened ‘scientific’ opposition to tobacco. Like
God and country, science and health can hardly be opposed by sensible people.
Not only is the individual’s health at stake, the battle is one for the health
of the nation. The smoker is characterized not only as a foolish deviant but a
danger to himself and to others. Yet although people have been smoking for three
hundred years, it has never been shown that any person was injured by another’s
smoke.
This emphasis on the physical has resulted in the neglect of other forms of science and the reasons why people smoke.